Introduction: Jost Hermand and James Steakley

JOHANN WALTHER (1496-1570)

Foreword to the Revised Edition of the Wittenberg Hymnal

HEINRICH SCHÜTZ (1585-1672)

To Elector Johann Goerg I of Saxony

Dedication of Symphoniae sacrae II

SAMUEL SCHEIDT (1587-1654)

To Duke August of Brunswick

To Heinrich Baryphonus

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN (1681-1767)

From the Autobiography

Sonnet on the Deceased Herr Kapellmeister Bach

GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL (1685-1759)

To Johann Mattheson

To King George I of England

To Charles Jennens, Jr.

To Georg Philipp Telemann

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)

Dedication of the Brandenburg Concertos

Contract with the Thomaschule

To Georg Erdmann

Dedication of A Musical Offering

JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ (1697-1773)

How a Performer and a Piece of Music Ought to be Judged

JOHANN ADOLF HASSE (1699-1783)

To the Abbé Giovanni Maria Ortes

CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH (1714-1788)

Autobiography

CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK (1714-1787)

Dedication of Alceste

To the Mercure de France

To Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

To the Baroness Anna von Fries

To Valentin

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809)

To Leonore Lechner

To Herr Rott

To Maria Anna von Genzinger

To the Administrator of the Esterházy Estate

To Christoph Gottlob Breitkopf

To the Members of th Bergen Musical Association on Rügen

KARL DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF (1739-1799)

From the Autobiography

KARL STAMITZ (1746-1801)

To King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia

CHRISTIAN GOTTLOB NEEFE (1748-1798)

From the Autobiography

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)

To Archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo

To Maria Anna Thekla Mozart

To Leopold Mozart

To Leopold Mozart

To Constanze Weber

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

To Franz Wegeler

The Heiligenstadt Testament

To His "Immortal Beloved"

To Johann Wolfgan von Goethe

ERNST THEODOR AMADEUS HOFFMANN (1776-1822)

Beethoven's Instrumental Music

LOUIS SPOHR (1784-1859)

From the Autobiography

CARL MARIA VON WEBER (1786-1826)

On the Opera Undine by E.T.A. Hoffmann

Autobiography

Essay on Johann Sebastian Bach

CARL CZERNY (1791-1857)

From Reminiscences from My Life

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828)

To Franz von Schober and Others

"My Dream," an Allegorical Story

To Franz von Schober

From His Lost Diary

To Emperor Franz II
To Franz von Schober

FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (1809-1847)

To Carl Friedrich Zelter

To the Committee of the Lower Rhine Music Festival

To Marc-André Souchay

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)

To Friedrich Wieck

"Rage Over the Lost Penny"

Chopin's Piano Concertos

To Clara Wieck

Schubert's Symphony in C

To Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

New Paths

OTTO NICOLAI (1810-1849)

Some Reflections on Italian Opera in Comparison to German

FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)

To Robert Schumann

To Countess Marie d'Agoult

Visit to Beethoven

RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883)

From "A Pilgrimage to Beethoven"

The Artist and the Public

To Karl Gaillard

From "Opera and Drama"

From His Diary

To Friedrich Nietzsche

ANTON BRUCKNER (1824-1896)

To Baron Hans von Wolzogen

JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)

To Clara Schumann

To Marie Lipsius

To Clara Schumann

GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911)

To the Members of the Budapest Opera House

To Arthur Seidl

To Alma Mahler

To the Members of the Court Opera Company

HUGO WOLF (1860-1903)

Opera Etiquette

A Monologue Recalled by Hugo Wolf

Bruckner on Two Pianos

Brahms's Symphony No.4

RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949)

Is There an Avant-Garde in Music?

To Hugo von Hofmannsthal

On Inspiration in Music

FERRUCCIO BUSONI (1866-1924)

Rules for Practicing the Piano

Mozart

HANS PFITZNER (1869-1949)

To Bruno Walter

ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG (1874-1951)

New Music

My Public

To William S. Schlamm

To Josef Rufer

My Attitude toward Politics

ANTON WEBERN (1883-1945)

The Path to Twelve-Note Composition

ALBAN BERG (1885-1935)

The Teacher

Postscript Concerning Wozzeck

On Hundredth Anniversary of Franz Schubert's Death

On Mahler's Ninth Symphony

PAUL DESSAU (1894-1979)

America

Theodor W. Adorno

Bertolt Brecht

Models

PAUL HINDEMITH (1895-1963)

To Gertrude Hindemith

Preface to Elementary Training for Musicians

HANNS EISLER (1898-1962)

Ludwig van Beethoven

On Modern Music

Theses

Statement

Statement on Leaving the U.S.A.

Bertolt Brecht and Music

KURT WEILL (1900-1950)

Radio and the Restructuing of Musical Life

A Note on Jazz

On teh Composition of The Three-Penny Opera

ERNST KRENEK (b. 1900)

That Noise Called Music

America's Influence on Its Émigré Composers

WERNER EGK (1901-1983)

On My Irish Legend

KARL AMADEUS HARTMANN (1905-1963)

My Yes to Luigi Nono

HANS WERNER HENZE (b. 1926)

Music as an Act of Desperation

Opera Belongs to Everyone

Paul Dessau

German Music in the 1940s and 1950s

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